OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES. DEVOTED TO COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, "Commerce is Ring." EDITED BY J. D. B. DE BOW, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. Vol. XII.-NEW SERIES, Vol. V. New-Orleans: OFFICE, EXCHANGE PLACE, (READING ROOM.) 1852. DE BOW'S D2 SOUTHERN AND WESTERN REVIEW. A MONTHLY INDUSTRIAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL. PUBLISHED IN NEW-ORLEANS. Five Dollars per Annum. Library Edition, Bound, 1846-1852, 12 Vols. PERIODICAL PACK The following list, made up for us on the last day of the session of Congress by a friend, is incomplete, and does not include many names which were given. "The undersigned, Members of Congress, take great pleasure in recommending De Bow's REVIEW to the People of the Southern and Western States, a work which has been edited and published in New Orleans for the last five years, by J. D. B. De Bow, and which embraces in a monthly series of numbers, the most complete and reliable facts and statistics relative to the progress and development of all the great branches of industry in the States, whether in Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, or Internal Improvement; as also the growth and progress of Population and Improvement; the question of Slavery in all its bearings, social and political, Slave Products, &c. The published volumes of this work constitute an invaluable library of Southern and Western Statistics, and have already become a standard authority." NEW-ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, May 14, 1846. SAMUEL J. PETERS, President. A. O. ANDREWS, President. Resolved, That the zeal and talent with which it has been commenced, and the able articles which have appeared in CINCINNATI MERCANTILE LIBRARY SOCIETY, Jan. 1849. Resolved. That the Board of Directors appreciate the efforts of J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., of New-Orleans, in collecting statistical information of great value to the South and West; that we regard his journal as valuable, and cordially recommend it to the patronage of merchants, etc. GEO. R. ROBINSON, Corresponding Secretary. INDEX TO VOLUME XII., DE BOW'S REVIEW. (NEW SERIES, VOL. V.) FROM JANUARY, 1852, TO JULY, 1852. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Mississippi River-Great Importance of Improving it. By Albert Stein, of Mobile, Ala. Remarks on the Report of Charles Ellet, Jr., in reference to the deepening of the passage over the bars of the mouth of the Mississippi. By A. Stein, Mobile...... Historical and Statistical Collections of Louisiana-Parish of Baton Rouge. By J. Car. Virginia Commercial Convention-Resources, Industry and Improvements of Virginia. Her Contests for the Trade of the West and Proposed Foreign Trade. By Messrs. The Post-System-Its History-History and Statistics of the U. S. Post-Office from Historical and Statistical Collections of Louisiana-Parish of Catahoula--Settlement, Resources, Antiquities, Botany, Geology of Northern Louisiana, etc. By Dr. Kil. 256, 631 Cotton Planters' Convention. By J. G. Gamble, of Florida.. Republic of Holland. By W. P. Riddell, A. B., of Louisiana.... 923327 Library Edition, Bound, 1846-1852, 12 Vols. "PERIODICAL TACK The following list, made up for us on the last day of the session of Congress by a friend, is in- "The undersigned, Members of Congress, take great pleasure in recommending De Bow's published in New-Orleans for the last five years, by J. D. B. De Bow, and which embraces in a monthly series of numbers, the most complete and reliable facts and statistics relative to the pro. gress and development of all the great branches of industry in the States, whether in Com- merce, Agriculture, Manufactures, or Internal Improvement; as also the growth and progress of Population and Improvement; the question of Slavery in all its bearings, social and political, Slave Products, &c. The published volumes of this work constitute an invaluable library of Southern and Western Statistics, and have already become a standard authority." NEW-ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, May 14, 1846. SAMUEL J. PETERS, President, A. O. ANDREWS, President. Resolved, That the zeal and talent with which it has been commenced, and the able articles which have appeared in CINCINNATI MERCANTILE LIBRARY SOCIETY, Jan. 1849. Resolved, As the sense of the Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati, that De Bow's Commercial Review of the Resolved. That the Board of Directors appreciate the efforts of J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., of New Orleans, in collecting GEO. R. ROBINSON, Corresponding Secretary. |